Common Transformation Tactics

Isolation: Isolate them and lock them up, either alone or with criminals.

Humiliation: Strip them of clothes and personal dignity–drill into their mind that they are criminals who have committed a terrible crime; people with dangerous mental problems.

Sleep deprivation: Deprive them of sleep for days on end; if they fall asleep wake them up immediately with a blow or loud sound. Keep doing this until they can no longer keep track of time or remember basic details about their life.

Inundation with anti-Falun Gong propaganda: Force them to watch ten hours a day of video vilifying Falun Gong and, especially, its founder Li Hongzhi. Play the tapes at full volume and do not allow them to look away.

Threats of indefinite incarceration: Convince them that the only way they will ever be able to leave again is if they sign the three-fold statement of guarantee and that everything will be over once they do.

Emotional manipulation: Bring in their parents, children, and siblings intervention-style to cry and even kneel in front of them, begging them to come home. Bring in their spouses to threaten with divorce.

Economic punishment: Threaten, and if necessarily, take away their jobs, pensions, or enrollment in university. Threaten that their family members will also lose their salaries and education opportunities.

Use of former practitioners: Bring in transformed former-Falun Gong practitioners (ideally someone the person was previously very close to) to help them “see the light.” Alternate one-on-one sessions with ones in which many people talk at the same time.

Ideological indoctrination: Replace Falun Gong by instilling in their minds a different ideology, ideally Marxism (make them read The Story of Lei Feng, Mao Zedong’s Selected Works, etc.)

Physical and psychological abuse: Employ the above tactics in conjunction with long hours of forced labor, extreme violence, sexual assault, and injection of psychotropic drugs, particularly for practitioners who display a commitment to their faith or attempt to practice Falun Gong exercises in custody.